Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Douglas MacArthur II, 34, nephew of the General, son-in-law of Kentucky's Alben Barkley, is a gaunt young diplomat who used to be secretary of the U.S. Embassy at Vichy under Admiral William D. Leahy, now President Roosevelt's personal military adviser. While Diplomat Henry-Haye was escorted to the lilies and languors of Hershey, Diplomat MacArthur was packed off to a dreary Vichy prison camp at Lourdes, was later turned over to the Nazis...
Lionel Barrymore's pleasant symphonic Partita was played by Conductor Fabien Sevitzky and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, was well received by Indiana-politans. Said intense Russian Sevitzky (nephew of Boston's Serge Koussevitsky): "Barrymore has as much talent musically as he has dramatically." The actor started composing at 18, modeled his work after his idols Bach and Handel, in 1942 orchestrated McDowell's Sea Pieces (originally for piano). Said Barrymore of Sevitzky: "We don't know each other and yet are good friends. He sees me one day on the screen and I listen the next...
...m.p.h. since he got some big, new engines which could supply the horsepower for lighting a small city if necessary. His wingspread is 150 ft., 46 ft. longer than his cousins', the newer B-173, only 62 ft. shorter than that of his nephew, the lumbering, dullard Douglas B19. Grandpappy has clippings to show that, in 1939, he carried a pay load of 31,205 Ib. (total weight: 74,000 Ib.) to a height of 8,200 ft. This eclipsed the Russian record...
...when Winnie was an "out" trying to get back in. Said Churchill then: "It isn't right that the . . . division [district] should be passed from hand to hand as is the case with a piece of furniture being handed on from father to son, or from uncle to nephew...
...rarity is the Oxford don, Clive Staples Lewis. In The Screwtape Letters (TIME, April 19, 1943) Author Lewis gave his readers Hell, and they liked it. Americans and Britons bought some 200,000 copies of these ironically instructive letters from an elderly devil in Hell to his callow young nephew on earth. But writers, as Dante and Milton knew, have usually felt more at home in Hell than in Heaven. Last week in Christian Behaviour (Macmillan; $1) Author Lewis succeeded in the much tougher task of making Heaven as readable as Hell...